sheepheads

hello to all,

this blog is my daily musings about creating music, running a ensemble and trying to be a human being in los angeles.

today is a good example... i met with a record producer (Ronan Chris Murphy), not to promote my music, but to get some advice about what I am doing. Ronan has a very successful history making records with groups prog-rock groups like King Crimson...
www.venetowest.com Anyhow we both have in common a love of the minimalist/ postmodern music of Philip Glass, Steve Reich , Terry Riley, and Michael Nyman. Its not that often you meet somebody who is in the music business that has similar tastes as well as can talk in detail about the obscure ravi shankar/philip glass movie score in 1968.

So we went out to lunch and I was hoping(as I usually am) for some great insight to my music and how to promote it better. I sure got it (although I wasn't really looking for something this hard). Essentially, Ronan explained that art music(my new term to explain any music to be contemplated (look it up in the harvard dictionary) is like taking a friend to eat sheep head. You see your Icelandic friend and your afghan friends chewing down, but you can't really bring yourself to try it. Once you take a bite, it is delicious, but how do you get girlfriend to try it on a date? That is the problem for "art" music these days. The people that come to the concerts usually enjoy them, but how do we get them to love sheep head.

there are other main problems about art music today, but first up is getting people to love sheep head